• He was about 11 years old when Deerfield was attacked. Tradition says that, hearing the screams in the nights, his fright led him to jump from a window and hide in a corn-bin, where he lay till morning. Then, finding all gone but the slain, he wished he had been taken with the others. Some accounts say that he removed with his mother, after her return, to Wallingford, Ct. Others state that he went to Norwalk, Ct., and remained there for some time with his father’s relatives. Perhaps he may have been at both places. Afterwards, he with 20 or 30 others commenced a settlement at Ridgefield, 12 miles south of Norwalk, where he afterwards resided.2946, p 329